# Languedoc — The South of France
> The Languedoc, from Sète to the Cathar country — fishing ports, oyster beds, vast vineyards and the Canal du Midi under its planes. Hotels, tables, wine and walks.

*Source : https://the-south-of-france.com/en/languedoc/*

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The Region · La région

From the canals of _Sète_ to the ramparts of the Cathar country, a land of oyster beds, plane-shaded waterways and vineyards that run to the horizon.

![A fishing port between sea and lagoon](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1597824854158-9226c52cd21b?fm=jpg&q=76&w=1600&auto=format&fit=crop) The Grand Report · Hérault

The Grand Report · Hérault

## Between two waters, the _port of Sète_

Canals, joustes and the lagoon of Thau on the doorstep. The island of the singers Brassens and Valéry, where oysters come up by the dozen.

Words — Théo Bonnefoy

[Read the report — lire le reportage](https://the-south-of-france.com/en/languedoc/languedoc-guide/)

### The latest from the _Languedoc_

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![A canal lined with plane trees](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1597512432969-dd65354dba02?fm=jpg&q=74&w=900&auto=format&fit=crop)

Walks

#### The Canal du Midi on foot

Riquet’s seventeenth-century waterway under a green tunnel of planes — the towpath is flat the whole way.

Béziers → Carcassonne

](https://the-south-of-france.com/en/languedoc/canal-du-midi-velo/)

![Oyster tables in a calm lagoon](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1715792001784-708b1d2c0bcd?fm=jpg&q=74&w=900&auto=format&fit=crop)

Sea

#### The oyster beds of Bouzigues

Tasting cabins on the lagoon, where the Bouzigues oyster is opened a few metres from where it grew.

Étang de Thau · Hérault

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![A medieval citadel on a hill](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1446155844149-5ac83a06ca74?fm=jpg&q=74&w=900&auto=format&fit=crop)

Villages

#### The Cité de Carcassonne

Fifty-two towers and a double rampart — the largest walled city in Europe, restored by Viollet-le-Duc.

Carcassonne · Aude

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![A coloured harbour beneath a bell tower](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1673423050661-134515109330?fm=jpg&q=74&w=900&auto=format&fit=crop)

Villages

#### Collioure, the painters’ port

Where Matisse and Derain invented Fauvism — anchovies, a Templar castle and a sea of pure pigment.

Collioure · Pyrénées-Orientales

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![Hillside vines under a southern sky](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1604948559069-3287d5c5a6e5?fm=jpg&q=74&w=900&auto=format&fit=crop)

Wine

#### Pic-Saint-Loup & the Minervois

Garrigue, schist and altitude — the appellations giving the Languedoc its serious reds.

Hérault & Aude

![A market square in a stone town](https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1587579785043-eccb9f70391d?fm=jpg&q=74&w=900&auto=format&fit=crop)

The Table

#### A market morning in Pézenas

Molière’s town, its petits pâtés and antiquaires, and the most theatrical Saturday in the Hérault.

Pézenas · Hérault

The Address Book · Le carnet d’adresses

### The Languedoc, _kept_

Stay

##### Château de Capitoul

Narbonne · in the vines

Table

##### La Table de Sète

Sète · the quays

Wine

##### Domaine de l’Hortus

Pic-Saint-Loup

Coffee

##### Les Halles de Narbonne

Narbonne

Shop

##### La Maison du Petit Pâté

Pézenas

Walk

##### Le sentier du Canal du Midi

Le Somail

[See all Languedoc addresses →](https://the-south-of-france.com/en/stays/)